San Diego Zoo

I have mentioned that I helped our son, Tim, move to San Diego at the end of June. I was only there for about 48 hours and most of that was helping him get settled into his new place. We did take a break on the second afternoon to head to the San Diego Zoo. It is FABULOUS! I loved it. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a good telephoto zoom lens with me. It was pretty warm (for San Diego). They had mister sprays blowing on many of the animals….some of the people as well. The San Diego Zoo is a lot of up and down hills. It is a place I would like to spend all day with my good camera and my big lens. There were A LOT of people there. I look forward to visiting Tim again soon and spending another day there rather than just a few hours. We had a good time though! The zoo is only about 20 minutes from his new place!

By the way….Tim is doing great! He is the sports performance coach for the women’s basketball team at the University of California San Diego. He also gives a hand on the men’s basketball side as well. He has a great house that he is living in where he has 3 male roommates who he actually knows their names and what they look like. He has two rooms to himself and use of all the shared living spaces as well. It is a nice neighborhood in the University City area in a quiet little neighborhood where there are a lot of retired folks. Not a lot of little kids zooming about. His backyard is spacious, walled in and has lemon trees and a few other fruit trees as well as beautiful flowering bushes. He has been working over 12 hour days the last couple of weeks getting into the flow of his new position. He has had a steep learning curve but is putting in the extra effort to get on track with the high level sports science they use for practice. If you know Tim, he is always eager to learn and then master something new. He is working on that now. He leaves with the team next week to go to Italy for 10 days. They will be playing some games while they are there but will also be doing a lot of touristy-type things that will help with team building for the year. I am so, so proud of what he is doing with his life and I am glad he is finally in a spot where he can be challenged, appreciated, and also have a life because he is getting paid. Makes a momma’s heart happy. He has definitely paid his dues at the last several spots he was at. Anyhow, here are a few photos I took at the San Diego Zoo….